ARMY Sgt.
Thomas R Macpherson, twenty-six, of Long Beach, California, died October 12, in Andar
District, Afghanistan.Sgt. Thomas MacPherson, twenty-six, was killed in a firefight Friday in the
Ghanzni province of Afghanistan, according to the Department of Defense.

He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, U.S. Army Special Operations Command, from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington.

MacPherson enlisted in the Army in 2007 after attending Los Alamitos
High School. He was on his fourth deployment to Afghanistan and had also
been deployed to Iraq.

MacPherson leaves behind his wife and son, both living in Tacoma, Washington.

The FBI has released this composite sketch of a man who kidnapped and sexually assaulted a twelve year old girl, Monday, near Cody, Wyoming.

The man asked the girl for help, finding his lost dog, getting her to enter his vehicle, he took her to a secluded area. Hunters found her a few hours later, walking down a rural road. She was given medical treatment and then reunited with her family.

He is described as a white male, forty-five to sixty years old, weighing between
185 and 200 pounds. At the time of the attack he had short strawberry blond or white
hair, with neatly trimmed facial hair, and was wearing brown
glasses with blue accent stripes, a brown shirt, blue jeans, and a tan
baseball cap. He was driving a white SUV, possibly a 2004-2005 Toyota SR-5 4-Runner.

Authorities are considering him armed and dangerous, though no word of a weapon was mentioned in the assault case. Anyone with information should call the Cody Police Department at 307-527-8700 or the FBI tip line at 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324).

Police were very clear that they do not believe the man is connected to the Jessica Ridgeway case, in Colorado.